Monday, December 13, 2010

And the Old Sense of Wonder Comes Back to Life

The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: "But the probe is still moving outward at 60,000 kph (38,000 mph). In a few more years it’ll leave the heliosheath behind, and when that happens it will truly be in interstellar space, the vast and nearly empty region between the stars. At that moment it will be the first human device ever to truly leave the solar system and enter the great stretches of the galaxy beyond."

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